Stakeholder Engagement

Engagement Approach Key Engagement in FY2025 Expectations/Requirements from Stakeholders
Project partners
  • Regular meetings
  • Business-related communication
  • Participation in operating committees, technical committees, and subcommittees for project decision-making
  • Discussions with operators for cost reduction
  • Prevention of major incidents
  • Implementation of human rights surveys
  • Compliance with laws and regulations, prevention of bribery and corruption
  • Management of risks in business activities
  • Respect for human rights
Contractors and suppliers
  • Tender and prequalification briefings
  • Supplier self-assessment surveys
  • Regular meetings
  • HSE audits
  • CSR audits
  • Supplier Forum
  • Provision of fair, equitable, and transparent participation opportunities for prospective suppliers
  • Holding of Annual INPEX HSE Awards
  • Improvement of supply chain management (implementation of supplier self-assessment survey for major suppliers and contractors in Japan)
  • Implementation of CSR audits of suppliers (including on-site inspections)
  • Holding of Supplier Forum (explanation of the Supplier Code of Conduct Guidelines, implementation of human rights training, etc.)
  • Implementation of human rights surveys
  • Improvement of risk management structure
  • Compliance with laws and prevention of bribery and corruption
  • Supply chain environmental and social due diligence
  • Prevention of major incidents
  • Securing of occupational health and safety
  • Respect for human rights
Customers
  • Establishment of designated contact points
  • Provision of product information
  • Identification of customer needs at service stations
  • Provision of product safe handling information (SDS)
  • Improvement of service station operations based on customer needs analysis
  • Compliance with laws and prevention of bribery and corruption
  • Development of and transition to clean energy
Shareholders and investors
  • General Meeting of Shareholders, various briefings, exhibitions, IR meetings, etc.
  • Publication of various materials (financial results, financial result briefing presentation materials, annual securities reports, Integrated Report, Sustainability Report, shareholder newsletters, etc.)
  • Holding of the General Meeting of Shareholders, financial result briefings (biannual: February and August), IR Meetings (495 times a year, including 10 ESG discussions), briefings for individual investors, Investor Day, etc.
  • Timely, appropriate, and fair disclosure of information through the corporate website and other channels and enhancement of content
  • Improvement of governance structure
  • Improvement of risk management structure
  • Improvement of climate-related risk management
Local communities and indigenous peoples
  • Environmental and social impact assessment
  • Local community briefings
  • Various pamphlets, mass media, social media, websites
  • Social contribution activities
  • Implementation of social contribution activities in response to local community needs (total expenditure: about 3 billion yen)
  • Response to inquiries/feedback from local residents in Japan and overseas
  • Implementation of activities in accordance with the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia
  • Provision of lectures and lessons for elementary school, junior high school, and technical college students in Japan
  • Respect for human rights
  • Proper water management and biodiversity conservation
  • Implementation of assessments of impacts on local communities and indigenous peoples and measures to reduce impacts
  • Contribution to local economies
NGOs/NPOs
  • Information gathering to respond to global social issues
  • Roundtable discussions
  • Engagement with NGOs/NPOs
  • Support for NGOs/NPOs through employee fundraising activities
  • Collaboration with and support for NGOs/NPOs through social contribution activities
  • Respect for human rights
  • Contribution to local economies
  • Development of and transition to clean energy
  • Improvement of climate-related risk management
  • Collaboration with NGOs/NPOs
Employees
  • Meetings with supervisors
  • Consultation between labor and management
  • Various training and study abroad programs
  • Internal magazines and newsletters
  • Various recognitions/awards
  • Communication from senior management via Message from the President & CEO
  • Dialogue with senior management via Open Offices (President & CEO, Senior Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents)
  • Introduction of one-on-one meetings with supervisors
  • Regular engagement with the INPEX Labor Union
  • Implementation of various training programs (48.7 hours/person)
  • Timely updates of internal online magazines (2 or 3 times/week)
  • Publication of compliance newsletter (12 issues)
  • Publication of information security newsletter (13 issues)
  • Holding of INPEX HSE Awards and INPEX Paper Award
  • Holding of Senior Vice President / General Manager Awards
  • Securing of occupational health and safety
  • Human resource development and enhancement of employee job satisfaction
  • Promotion of diversity
  • Respect for human rights
Countries of operation
  • Communication at each phase of the project (tender, acquisition of development plan approvals, development, production, decommissioning)
  • Close communication with countries of operation in accordance with project progress and management
  • Prevention of corruption and improvement of transparency in oil and gas producing countries through support for EITI
  • Compliance with laws and prevention of bribery and corruption
  • Prevention of major incidents
  • Contribution to local economies
  • Development of and transition to clean energy

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